who is that

[Nick]

Can we have something like this please? I always forget who someone is after a new username change.

It would only be on the who's online area thing.

 

[Puddle]

I agree.
I'm still trying to remember that Kouzan or whatever is AWsquared.

 

[Honest]

I mean... I do think it'd be useful, but is it really much to go to their profile and check? =/

 

[Nick]

I mean... I do think it'd be useful, but is it really much to go to their profile and check? =/

It is when you have to do that for like 20 people because that's what I do.

 

[Honest]

Twenty people? O_o Well, touché I suppose... I guess some people would find it useful. There's no real downside to this other than coding for the admins. I suppose if they're down for it, it couldn't hurt.


Go bribe them.

 

[Elaitenstile]

You can get the same effect by clicking their name in the postbit... Wouldn't that be sufficient?

True, but then you see a mod's username on the Who's Online thing, and then you're confused whether he's a new mod or a name change. Might save you the convenience of going through his profile and checking the statistics page. Especially when you have a slow connection that would take longer to load the page up; it could get annoying.

 

[Nick]

You shouldn't have to put any effort at all into finding out who someone is if they've changed their username. Going to someone's profile every time you forget who they are is annoying. Especially if you're like me and forgetful and you have to do it to so many people so many times.

 

[Nick]

You don't even need to go to the profile page. In a thread, click on the username, and it'll have something like this:

Previously Known As:
★Hoenn★

(I shamelessly used yours as an example sorry) But yeah, couldn't this be sufficient?

That's only in threads. Why go from the index to find someone's post to see who they were before when you can literally find out instantly? Especially if you'd end up going on their profile to find all their posts to see their postbits with that formerly known as thing on it.

 

[Sydian]

I'd like to see this, personally. I don't have more to add though. Just tossing my agreement. Great suggestion, Nick.

 

[Morkula]

I don't think I would use it very often, but I can see how it would be useful. And it shouldn't be too hard for Audy or Jake to code. I think it's worth adding to the to-do pile.

 

[Cherrim]

I often catch myself opening people's profiles from Who's Online just to see who they used to be, so I'd definitely use this too if it existed.

 

[Khoshi]

I like how convenient this sounds, and I'd really like to see it in use x).
Sounds nice to me, a good suggestion.

 

[abnegation]

Working on it as we speak. I just need an Admin (Audy most likely) to make something available and then I'll have it rolled out soon after. Sit tight :]

 

[Nick]

This is awesome. Thank you so much. I've wanted this for so long!

 

[Meksal]

So, tell me. Where will this feature be located on the post?

Nevermind, answered my own question.

 

[Hikamaru]

So, tell me. Where will this feature be located on the post?

Nevermind, answered my own question.

It's for the online list in the index. Just hover over someone's name and it'll tell you "Formerly (insert name here)".

Anyways, glad to see you guys implemented it. Didn't seem like hard work at all!